To:V. V. VOROVSKY[1]

Published:First published in 1933 inLenin Miscellany XXIV.

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      Moscow,Volume 35,

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October 24, 1919

ComradeV. V. VorovskyState Publishing House

Havinglooked through the pamphletThird International,
March 6–7, 1919, brought out by the State Publishing House,
Moscow, 1919 (price 8 rubles), 99 pages, I impose asevere
reprimandfor such a publication, and demand that all
members of the collegium of the State Publishing House
should read my present letter, and should work out serious
measures to guarantee that such an outrage is not repeated.

Thepamphlet is a horrible piece of work. A slovenly
mess. No table of contents. Some idiot or sloven, evidently
an illiterate, has lumped together, as though he were drunk,
all the “material”, little articles, speeches, and printed
themout of sequence.

Nopreface, no minutes, no exact text of the decisions,
no separation of decisions from speeches, articles, notes,
nothing at all! An unheard-of disgrace!

Agreat historic event has been disgraced by such a
pamphlet.

(1)Correctionbypasting in. (The guilty persons to
be sent to prison and obliged topaste inthe additions in
every copy.)

ThatI should be informed:

(2a)How many copies were printed?

(2b)How many have been sold?

(3)Reprintingin adecentform.Proofs to be shown to me.

(4)Establishmentof a rule thatone definite personshould
be responsible foreachpublication (a register of responsible
persons to be started).

(5)Othermeasures for introducing order; they are to
be worked out and sent to me.

V.Ulyanov(Lenin)Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

[1]Referenceis to Levi’s report “The Political Situation and the
Elections to Parliament” at the Congress of the Communist Party of
Germany, which took place in Berlin, April 14–15, 1920.